Today's Top Alzheimer's News

September 13, 2013

Untangling the mysteries of Alzheimer's, Americans living longer and healthier years, and the work of the Alzheimer's Poetry Project on PBS Newshour (read more).

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A September 13, 2013 USA Today article reported on the efforts of the Alzheimer's Prevention Registry to "recruit up to 250,000 people for a registry available to academic and pharmaceutical companies that are conducting Alzheimer's prevention trials."

A September 12, 2013 Harvard Gazette article reported on a new study that found that Americans "enjoy more healthy years than a generation ago." According to the article, "The study shows that Americans are healthier than ever. The data show people living longer and reporting more energy, less depression and anxious moods, and less impairment in everyday tasks like walking and caring for themselves. All of the groups examined — blacks, whites, females, and males — showed improved quality-adjusted life expectancy."

Why 2020?

UsAgainstAlzheimer’s has retained its goal of stopping Alzheimer’s by 2020 rather than endorsing the goal of the National Plan to Address Alzheimer’s Disease that calls for preventing and effectively treating the disease by 2025. While we support the national plan and its goals, we believe, as most every family touched by Alzheimer’s disease believes, that preventing and effectively treating Alzheimer's by 2025 is simply too long a wait for concrete progress. There are promising avenues of drug discovery and development that will, if successful, deliver a means of slowing or deferring Alzheimer's symptoms by 2020. By voicing the urgency felt by so many families, we will pressure researchers and industry to do all in their power to make that happen.